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"Morning," said Pierre le Rouge cheerily, and swung off the bunk to the floor. "How old's the gun?" The boy, without the slightest show of excitement, snapped the butt to his shoulder and drew a bead on Pierre's breast. "Sit down before you get all heated up," said a musical voice. "There's nobody waiting for you on horseback."
And the ladies, with pale faces and eyes glittering with covetousness, craned forward and ran over the names of the other kings, the other emperors, who were shortly expected. All of them were dreaming of some royal caprice, some night to be paid for by a fortune. "Now tell me, dear boy," Caroline Hequet asked Vandeuvres, leaning forward as she did so, "how old's the emperor of Russia?"
Together with the little book, in which she was writing furiously, she had pulled out her handkerchief, and the sight of this handkerchief reposing on the floor gave Thyme a queer satisfaction, such as comes when one remarks in superior people the absence of a virtue existing in oneself. "Well, we mustn't keep you, Mrs. Mrs. ?" "Cleary." "Cleary. How old's this little one? Four? And the other?
"How old's yore girl?" the man asked his host. Tolliver hesitated, trying to remember. "How old are you, June?" "Going on sixteen," she answered, eyes smouldering angrily. This man's cool, impudent appraisal of her was hateful, she felt. He laughed at her manner, easily, insolently, for he was of the type that finds pleasure in the umbrage of women annoyed by his effrontery.
It is true that we have the full and clear narrative of Smith himself, and such corroboration as he could look for from Thomas Styles the servant, from the Reverend Plumptree Peterson, Fellow of Old's, and from such other people as chanced to gain some passing glance at this or that incident in a singular chain of events.
How old's she, master?" "Fifty years and more," said I. "Dere's nuffin' pertickler in dat," cried Cromwell. "I knows a wessel dat am a hundred an' four year old, s'elp me as I stand." "I don't know how the whaler's heading," said I, "but this schooner's a canoe if we aren't dropping her!" Indeed she was scarce visible astern, a mere windy flicker hovering upon the pale flashings of the foam.
I wish he couldn't swallow till he give me half his land. An' when he got old an' wobbly on his legs, tow-headed brats a-waitin' for his money couldn't a-p'inted their fingers at him an' said, 'Ma, how old's grandpap? An' when he died, nobody could a wrote on his tombstone, 'He robbed the poor an' he cheated the rich, an' he's gone to hell with the balance a' sich."
"That's good, Tom," he said, pausing after the first sip; "that's the best I ever tasted here; how old's that?" "Five years!" Tom replied: "five years last fall! Daddy Tom made it out my own best apples take a horn, Mr.
Hackleton stands on the high road from Bedford and Olney to Northampton, and Thomas Scott was in the habit of resting at Mr. Old's on his not infrequent walks from Olney, where he had succeeded John Newton. There he had no more attentive listener or intelligent talker than the new journeyman, who had been more influenced by his preaching at Ravenstone than by that of any other man.
I don't think you ever called me by any name at all, or I should have noticed your mistake and set you right. Yes, I'm married. I came out here to get strong for the babies." "Got a boy an' a girl, eh?" "Yes." "How old's th' boy?" "Five." "An' th' girl?" "She'll soon be four." "An' yer husband he's livin'?" "I should say so! I'm a very happy woman, Mr. Roeder. If only I were stronger!"
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